August 2015
byHello, my friends! Today I’ve been dwelling on whether or not the word “plazy” is a clever or really annoying way to describe a day spent lounging around and playing games. “Hey, Lindsey, what’d you do last night?” “Me, I just had…
Hello, my friends! Today I’ve been dwelling on whether or not the word “plazy” is a clever or really annoying way to describe a day spent lounging around and playing games. “Hey, Lindsey, what’d you do last night?” “Me, I just had…
In the spirit of August’s topic for Blogs of the Round Table, I’ve been looking back at some older editions of this fine feature of ours. In doing so I’ve discovered that August 2015 has matched BoRT’s month of highest participation! You’d have…
Readers, do you know I’m sometimes mistaken for Australian? Don’t ask me why, with all the Zs and missing Us in my speech, but it happens. Anyway, right now I rather wish I were an Aussie. It’s approximately “claw my eyes out”…
Sometimes writers independently cover the same topic, approaching a common subject from unique perspectives. Critical Discourse is our attempt to bring these perspectives together in a direct conversation, where writers discuss work their ideas together. In this edition we invite three writers regularly featured at…
Kris is taking a well deserved break this week and has left curation duties in my competent, if grubby mitts. Why are they so grubby? Because I’ve been rummaging around the internet to bring you your weekly dose of organic games crit….
Where have all the flowers gone? And if your answer to that is anything but “Oklahoma!” we can never be friends. But that’s enough deep cut references out of me for one opener — let’s move ahead and get going with This…
Ah, yeah, it’s getting to be that time of year. When the heat feels like a damp breath on the back of your neck and the cat is shedding enough fur to produce an entire extra cat.* There’s nothing for it except…
Hello, my friends! In my continued effort to re-emerge from hiding after my (successful!) PhD qualifying exams, I am back with another month of LPs! Before we get started, I want to extend special thanks to Riley MacLeod for taking over in…
Could it be that it’s been a whole year since BoRT pioneer Alan Williamson descended into a vat of liquid steel, leaving Lindsey Joyce and I with but a thumbs up and a word of encouragement as we carried his legacy forward?…
Good morning, Sunday readers! I think it’s morning. Yes? Technically. Like my cat I have lost all sense of time except dawn and dusk. But enough of my crepuscular hunting patterns, it’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! Academic Rigor Skepchick’s…